February 22, 2013: Morning
By The Morning News
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- Snows depart the Midwest for the Northeast, but also bring moisture to some drought-stricken areas.
- Medical bills are simply too high, enriching labs, Big Pharma, device makers, and hospital administrators, and screwing over everybody else.
- For foreign drug manufacturers, Japan's aging population and manufacturing provide the world's hottest market.
- Companies and bands like Green Day rent ad space on young Japanese women's bare legs.
- Socio-economic systems and cultural stereotypes explained with two cows.
- In 1939, a conference of educators, manufacturers, and paint experts decided that school buses should be yellow.
- U.S. Army's official swatch of desert tan— Federal Standard 595 Color No. 33446—is housed in Franconia, Va.
- Documentary about a West Bank village—the filming of which broke five cameras—shows non-violent resistance to be a brutal endeavor.
- Alaska's Mount Marathon Race is only 3.5 miles long, but so dangerous that one runner went up and didn't come down.
- For your weekend e-reading, four stories about how our assumptions and the world don’t always agree.
- In places that lock up more people, crime may initially decline, but within a few years the rate rebounds and is even higher than before.
- Forest Whitaker wrongly accused of shoplifting in a New York City deli.
- Once upon a time, spec scripts were gold in Hollywood; now, they're slowly returning, with two plots recently sold about “Die Hard in the White House.”
- "Harlem Shake" is the first song from a largely unknown artist to debut at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100.
- See also: "Harlem Shake" explained.
- Your morning dose of robotics: Two quadrocopters juggle an inverted pendulum.
- For your weekend entertainment: Willam from RuPaul's Drag Race offers critiques of YouTube beauty tutorials.
